To:PEOPLE’S COMMISSARS

Published:First published in 1928 inLenin Miscellany VIII.

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August 29, 1918

Iallow myself to express the following wishes on the
question of fulfilment of the Council of People’s
Commissars’ resolution of August 29, on the submission ofreportswithinone week:

Inthe reports, which must beas popular as possible,
it is particularly necessary to note

(a)improvement in the position of the masses (raising
of wages for theworkers, school-teachers, etc.),

(b)participation of the workers in administration (
personally outstanding workers, workers’ organisations
likewise, etc.),

(c)participation of the poor peasants and their help to
Soviet power in the struggle against the kulaks,

(d)expropriation of the landowners, capitalists, traders,
financiers, etc.

Themain task is to demonstrateconcretely, with facts,exactly howSoviet power has made definite steps (the first)
towards socialism.